Strong H4519H4519Hמְנַשֶּׁה

Manasseh

One of the 5 senses of Strong H4519

Transliteration
menashsheh
Pronunciation
men-ash-sheh'
Morphology
Proper Name (Masculine) of a Person

Definition

A king of the tribe of Judah living at the time of Divided Monarchy, first mentioned at 2Ki.20.21;
son of: Hezekiah (H2396) and Hephzibah (H2657); married to Meshullemeth (H4922);
father of: Amon (H526H)
Also named: Manassēs (Μανασσῆς "Manasseh" G3128H)

Meaning of the name

Manasseh = "causing to forget"

General definition

From H5382; causing to forget;
{Menashsheh} a grandson of {jacob} also the tribe descendant from {him} and its territory: - Manasseh.

In the biblical story

Manasseh

King of Judah, son of Hezekiah.

Manasseh, son of Hezekiah, was a king of Judah who reigned for 55 years (2Ki.20.21; 21.1,9,11,16,17,18,20; 23.12,26; 24.3; 1Ch.3.13; 2Ch.32.33; 33; Jer.15.4; Mat.1.10,10).

In the Bible

Strong H4519H appears in 23 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • manasseh23

First verses

  1. 2 Kings 20:21
    And Hezekiah slept with his fathers: and Manasseh his son reigned in his stead.
  2. 2 Kings 21:1
    Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Hephzi–bah.
  3. 2 Kings 21:9
    But they hearkened not: and Manasseh seduced them to do more evil than did the nations whom the Lord destroyed before the children of Israel.
  4. 2 Kings 21:11
    Because Manasseh king of Judah hath done these abominations, and hath done wickedly above all that the Amorites did, which were before him, and hath made Judah also to sin with his idols:
  5. 2 Kings 21:16
    Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; beside his sin wherewith he made Judah to sin, in doing that which was evil in the sight of the Lord.
  6. 2 Kings 21:17
    Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and all that he did, and his sin that he sinned, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
  7. 2 Kings 21:18
    And Manasseh slept with his fathers, and was buried in the garden of his own house, in the garden of Uzza: and Amon his son reigned in his stead.
  8. 2 Kings 21:20
    And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, as his father Manasseh did.
  9. 2 Kings 23:12
    And the altars that were on the top of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the Lord, did the king beat down, and brake them down from thence, and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron.
  10. 2 Kings 23:26
    Notwithstanding the Lord turned not from the fierceness of his great wrath, wherewith his anger was kindled against Judah, because of all the provocations that Manasseh had provoked him withal.
  11. 2 Kings 24:3
    Surely at the commandment of the Lord came this upon Judah, to remove them out of his sight, for the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he did;
  12. 1 Chronicles 3:13
    Ahaz his son, Hezekiah his son, Manasseh his son,
  13. 2 Chronicles 32:33
    And Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the chiefest of the sepulchres of the sons of David: and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem did him honour at his death. And Manasseh his son reigned in his stead.
  14. 2 Chronicles 33:1
    Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem:
  15. 2 Chronicles 33:9
    So Manasseh made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to err, and to do worse than the heathen, whom the Lord had destroyed before the children of Israel.
  16. 2 Chronicles 33:10
    And the Lord spake to Manasseh, and to his people: but they would not hearken.
  17. 2 Chronicles 33:11
    Wherefore the Lord brought upon them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria, which took Manasseh among the thorns, and bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon.
  18. 2 Chronicles 33:13
    And prayed unto him: and he was intreated of him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the Lord he was God.
  19. 2 Chronicles 33:18
    Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer unto his God, and the words of the seers that spake to him in the name of the Lord God of Israel, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel.
  20. 2 Chronicles 33:20
    So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his own house: and Amon his son reigned in his stead.
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